Creating Fire-Safe Communities
Presented by Chad Hanson
February 5, 2019, 7:30pm
San Bernardino County Museum, 2014 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands
Research ecologist Chad Hanson will discuss how we can create far more fire-safe communities. He will also discuss why the current fire management focus on backcountry fire suppression and commercial logging is based on myths that are not only harming habitat in wildlands but are also dangerously diverting resources and attention away from protecting communities from wildland fire.
Chad was elected last spring to a three-year term on the Sierra Club national Board of Directors, receiving the highest number of votes among the five who were elected. He has a Ph.D. in ecology from UC Davis and is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, based in Big Bear City. He previously served two terms on the Sierra Club Board from 1997 to 2003.
Chad previously presented The Ecological Importance of Mixed Intensity Wildfires at the August 2018 chapter meeting.
